Quote by Louis Kahn
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. - Louis Kahn

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. – Louis Kahn

Other quotes by Louis Kahn

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul. – Louis Kahn

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architecture
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Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. – Louis Kahn

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Beauty
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A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. – Louis Kahn

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architecture
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architecture
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Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. – Marilyn Hacker

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architecture

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture. – Ian Hamilton Finlay

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architecture

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. – Louis Kahn

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architecture

Ive always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones. – Joe Elliott

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architecture

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